An offer you can’t refuse (3)
“To think that our PD Jang is already drinking at this hour. Will the sun rise in the north tomorrow?”
Song Jeong-woo appeared with a smirk, and Kim Sang-hee lightly touched his forehead.
Her gaze turned to the bartender and owner, Min-seok Kim, who shook his head lightly as if he did not know.
‘Could it be the author?’
I glanced at the employee who had arrived early, but the employee also shook his head as if he did not know.
‘Then who the hell are you?’
Jeong Seo-hoon also looked at him, but he seemed to be exchanging multi-talk with actresses after a long time.
‘There’s no way PD Jang did that, maybe the professor?’
Then this situation makes sense.
Song Jeong-woo sat between Kim Sang-hee and Jang Seung-won as if he was squeezing in.
“Oops, the seats are tight. PD Jean, can you step aside for a bit?”
“Why do you want to sit here, leaving all the wide seats?”
Jang Seung-won grumbled but quietly stepped aside.
Song Jeong-woo looked at Kim Sang-hee with wet eyes.
“Don’t look at me like that. It’s burdensome.”
“Writer Kim. Do you know that I am very proud and sorry that the ha-geuk-sang is doing so well these days?”
“What else are you sorry for?”
“It’s already passed the mid-30% ratings. My heart ached when I saw that. I also blamed myself a lot. Writer Kim’s script is good, but my directing is lacking, so I only got 29.9% for Illi Girl,” he said.
Song Jeong-woo looked back at Jeong Seo-hoon again.
“I also feel sorry for our Seo Hoon. It wasn’t going to stop at 29.9%. It’s all because of this incompetent PD.”
Jeong Seo-hoon dug into Song Jeong-woo’s chest as if nothing had happened.
“It was a little disappointing. 0.1%, because we couldn’t overcome that small difference.”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Seohun. It was all because my directing was lacking.”
Song Jeong-woo pretended to be hurt, but inside he was grateful to Jeong Seo-hoon.
Leaking contact, pretending not to know and slightly beating oneself.
Isn’t it helping Kim Sang-hee to feel sorry for herself even a little bit?
“Seohun? Aren’t you being too mean to producer Song?”
When Kim Sang-hee looked at him in surprise, Jung Seo-hoon shrugged.
“As a new actor, I am very grateful for the 29.9%, but as a director of a production company, the missed 0.1% is very regretful.”
“move? Seohun, when did you move?”
“It is going to be. Because the professor decided to start a media production company.”
“Did our writer Kim decide to do a new work there?”
“Ah, that.”
Jeong Seo-hoon deliberately turned around as if embarrassed, and only then did Kim Sang-hee and Jang Seung-won realize how things were going.
“what. Seo Hoon sang PD Song… … .”
“I just said that the three of us were drinking together.”
“right. That’s it. But after hearing that PD Jang was drinking in broad daylight, I woke up. Writer Kim, do you know what it means that PD Jang drinks from daytime?”
“I don’t know.”
“The writer who has the script that I am greedy for directing is a lover. ruler. please give me too.”
“Are you drinking?”
“Give me a drink and give me a script. hurry. Will I not show you?”
Song Jeong-woo held out his hand as if it were natural, and Kim Sang-hee clicked his tongue lightly and returned the laptop.
Jang Seung-won quietly poured a drink from the other side.
“Professor A, the villain, will be the main protagonist, and Seo Hoon will act. I correct and read the corrections like that.”
“okay.”
Song Jung-woo did not read for a long time like Jang Seung-won.
After reading only the 2nd episode quickly and at once, I took a deep breath and looked straight into the eyes.
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Not to Kim Sang-hee, but to Jang Seung-won.
“Peddy Jean. I will do this.”
“Song PD. Anybody?”
“This is my major. PD Jang, do you know anything other than historical dramas? It’s been a long time since I gave up on modern stuff.”
“Why is this? Didn’t you know that in ‘Moon Locked Well’, I directed the fusion historical drama of a time traveler going back and forth between Seoul and Hanyang properly and naturally?”
“That’s because Hyundai Seoul’s proportion is less than 10%. When was the last time you did a piece that only deals with modern times from beginning to end? 17 years ago, 17 years ago! After that, I only did historical dramas!”
“Seventeen years ago? Wasn’t it 15 years ago?”
“17 years. i just remember I entered the film with ‘On the Street’ and then the ratings skyrocketed and I was about to break the megaphone. I rushed into the historical drama and PD Jang came back to life, and after that, I didn’t even look at the modern genre!”
“The song producer? Before meeting writer Kim, I grabbed a megaphone for a college youth romantic comedy, and the viewership rating was 8%?”
“That’s the highest viewership rating of 8.1%, PD Jean!”
“Did you forget that producer Song grabbed your head later saying it was a counting error? It was 7.9%.”
“What, are you sure?”
“Are you sure.”
Jeong Seo-hoon, who had moved to Kim Sang-hee’s side before he knew it, lowered his voice and asked.
“Do you two know each other very well?”
“Do you think you know the opponent’s career faster than your own?”
“I knew it was a long-term relationship, but it must have been more fun than I thought.”
“PD Song had a longing for historical dramas, and PD Jang, on the contrary, was envious of PD Song who was winning and winning in modern dramas.”
“It seems that each holds something that the other does not have.”
“Yes.”
Jeong Seo-hoon, who was still looking at the two PDs who were still arguing, stepped out.
“PD Song, but do you know that?”
“Which one?”
“PD Jean, you are the one who will be the CEO and executive producer.”
“uh… … .”
Song Jeong-woo, who was speechless, stammered for an empty breath before holding on to Kim Sang-hee.
“Writer Kim, do you really have to do that with PD Jang? If I bring you an organization on better terms… … .”
“Sir Seo Hoon is the director of the production company? If you want Seo Hoon to appear as the lead role, you have to produce it here. This is a bundle package.”
“Oh. I said move Look at my mind.”
Song Jeong-woo was suffering from a mild mental breakdown, and Jang Seung-won smiled like a winner.
“Then, writer, are you giving me this work?”
“But I have no doubts about PD Jang’s ability to direct historical dramas, but the modern genre has been on a break for too long. What do you think of our Director Jung?”
“well. It’s me.”
As Jeong Seo-hoon lightly rhymed, both producers’ earnest gazes turned to him at the same time.
“I think it’s right to discuss it after filming the lower extremities is finished. I don’t think it’s time to seriously discuss appearing in a new work yet.”
“The director said to talk later. I guess you want to watch the two of them burn a little longer.”
Before he knew it, Song Jeong-woo secretly called Jang Seung-won ‘CEO’ and began to fawn.
Even if he was an old friend and a secret rival, it was a desirable attitude to put everything down in front of the directing rights.
While the two went to the bathroom for a while, Kim Sang-hee quietly said,
“When the time comes, let’s meet Cha Do-jin and tell him indirectly. I think it would be more effective if Mr. Seo Hoon spoke rather than someone else.”
“Did you think of the role of a rival professor starring a villain?”
“Yes. Doesn’t that sound like a good fit? He also did a good job as a lawyer in Illy Girl.”
“The writer could have said it himself.”
“Still, it has a different weight than what the lead actor and director directly proposes.”
“All right. Do you have any other actors in mind?”
“I think it would be fun to have all of Jeong Seo-hoon appear on the show. Yoo Jung-ah, Chae Ji-hyun, Han Seo-hee, and even Lee Seo-hyun. What do you think?”
“As long as the image is correct, I will not oppose it. In fact, they are all actors who have been recognized for their visuals and acting skills.”
Kim Sang-hee, who had expected a mildly troubled response, murmured in disbelief.
“Well, it seems like you can already see how the viewer bulletin board will turn upside down. You have to live with the fun of anticipating that.”
“Wait. I’ll contact Cha Do-jin first.”
After sending the message, the phone rang shortly after.
Jeong Seo-hoon, who confirmed the notification, stood up.
“I think you should get up first.”
“suddenly? Where are you going?”
“I’m going to cast the male lead partner. Cha Do-jin says let’s meet now.”
“Now? You act fast.”
“You are a prospective director. You have to excel in sales.”
Kim Sang-hee shook his head excitedly.
“To think that a genius rookie actor who graduated from Korea University is also a director of a production company with 3 consecutive hits and solid capital. Even in a drama, if you put out a main character like this, viewers will scold you for not being realistic.”
Kim Sang-hee originally made a large part of the specification settings of Professor A, the villain role, ‘realistic’.
He is a brain-type schemer with outstanding genius, endless vengeance and patience, but he is in his 50s and has a moderately normal appearance.
If Jeong Seo-hoon is inserted here, viewers who do not know well may shout that the character setting is too unrealistic.
‘If they knew the actual specs of the actors, they would all keep their mouths shut, right?’
* * *
The place Cha Do-jin asked me to come to was the gym.
It is a gym for residents only in the high-end residential complex where he lives, and it was equipped with strict security.
Access to the building was easy thanks to the password Cha Do-jin gave me, and the gym desk was almost at the level of a free pass.
“I am an acquaintance of Mr. Cha Do-jin, and he called me here. If you tell the desk, they’ll let you in.”
“Um, aren’t you the one who played the role of Daegun in the drama?”
“you’re right.”
“Wow, I am watching the drama. If actor Jeong Seo-hoon is an acquaintance of Cha Do-jin, a resident, it is certain. Come on in. Wear these shoes, and the shared training clothes are separate inside.”
The young male manager made a fuss and personally guided Jeong Seo-hoon.
I thought I would wait until Cha Do-jin came to pick me up, but my face was my ID.
After changing into training clothes in the locker room, I can feel the eyes pouring into me.
In particular, the eyes of housewives in their 40s and older were not hot enough to be explicit.
Fortunately, no one pretends to know or approaches, perhaps because of the face of being a resident of a luxury apartment.
“Oh, are you here?”
At that time, Cha Do-jin, who was drenched in sweat, appeared and greeted me warmly.
Strong and sleek muscles stand out over the personal training clothes that cling to the body.
“I just waited and looked at it slowly. Why did you say that I had to work hard to come here?”
“I wanted to see Cha Do-jin working out in person.”
“Did you change your clothes? While you’re here, would you like to exercise together, Mr. Seo Hoon? Have you ever exercised before?”
“I have never exercised in particular.”
“hit. I said I was just studying. But what is your body like?”
Cha Do-jin inspected Jeong Seo-hun’s body and exclaimed lightly.
“Wow, this is a body that hasn’t exercised? The whole body is just made up of densely packed small muscles? You really don’t exercise?”
“I didn’t do anything in particular.”
“Sit here for a moment.”
Cha Do-jin sat Seo-hoon Jeong on the peck deck machine with his eyes shining. It is mainly a machine for training the pectoral muscles.
The apparatus was set to the shrink load mode, and the weight was set to 20 kg.
“Let’s go lightly for once.”
Jeong Seo-hoon asked after going back and forth a few times really lightly and quickly.
“Are they really like feathers?”
“At first, I deliberately lowered it because I didn’t want to get injured because I didn’t exercise. Then I’ll upload a little more.”
Eventually, the weight went down to the bottom, and Jeong Seo-hoon lightly completed 30 round-trips without a break.
He didn’t even shed a single drop of sweat.
With a towel wrapped around his neck, Cha Do-jin opened his mouth wide before finally speaking.
“Are you a person?”
* * *
Greedy Cha Do-jin taught Jeong Seo-hoon how to use various exercise equipment and had him do a weight test.
For Jeong Seo-hoon, it was more difficult to deliberately pretend to be difficult. It was the most difficult of all the acting I have done in front of the camera and in everyday life.
“No, how can such a nimble body come out with such power? This makes no sense.”
Jeong Seo-hoon had a body shape that was far from being a bodybuilder, but closer to a model fit.
However, Cha Do-jin showed an amazing power beyond common sense.
Even though I deliberately cut it off pretending not to put more power in the right line.
“Let’s arm wrestle with me once.”
In the impromptu arm wrestling match, Jeong Seo-hun easily defeated Cha Do-jin with just one index finger.
Cha Do-jin sighed with his legs stretched out weakly, full of despondency.
“I’ve been working out so hard up until now, but it was all in vain. It was in vain… … . Do you have a gene like that of a merchant in the world?”
“Because I ran around with a gun in the army, I naturally got lean muscles.”
“Did you just cross the line of fire in an overseas battlefield like the real Lee Jin-wook? Uh, really.”
Cha Do-jin, who was exuding admiration, sighing, and envy, opened the water bottle and drank the ion drink.
“Cha Do-jin, are you working on a project right now?”
“I’ve been looking at some incoming scenarios and scripts, but nothing really appeals to me. But why is Seo Hoon doing that?”
“Would you like to do a piece with me?”
“Aren’t you in the middle of filming the drama right now? Are you sure you want to start a new project right after it’s over?”
“Please look at the script first.”
Jeong Seo-hoon showed Cha Do-jin the script that Kim Sang-hee sent by e-mail.
After reading the script up to episode 4, Cha Do-jin looked back with a sense of wonder.
“But why is the lead actor running the casting business instead of the producer?”
“The directing has not been decided yet. First of all, I have the supreme decision on this work.”
“You’re not the author, are you Seo Hoon?”
“Yes. My advisor decided to invest in the drama in earnest this time.”
Hearing the simple explanation, Cha Do-jin even clapped his hands and enjoyed it.
“Yeah. IM jealous. I wish I had a teacher like that. To burn 30 billion for a disciple. He’s a drama lead character, isn’t he?”
“I wish senior Cha Do-jin would play the role of a former colleague professor.”
“I keep saying don’t call me senior. So how many times do I jab?”
“How many?”
“Aren’t the actresses supposed to have casted in advance and come to me now? What number am I?”
“Definitely the first. I was the first to find Cha Do-jin.”
“Is this Cha Do-jin the first pick for a drama produced by Jeong Seo-hoon?”
Jeong Seo-hoon swallowed it while trying to say that he was only a director and had nothing to do with production.
I felt a strange feeling of emotion shimmering in Cha Do-jin’s eyes.
“If you rest too long, the company says something… … Ey, I’ll take responsibility and cut out all the castings that come in.”
“thank you.”
“But please don’t include only Yoo Jung-ah in the love triangle between the two of us. It’s hard for me to film a Rocco with him because I can’t capture my emotions. So will he.”